The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-16

THE President has appointed as COMMAS
sioners to investigate the affairs OF the
Pacific railroads, under the act passed by
the last Congress: Ex-Governor Robert E.
Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Il. Ellery Ander-
son, of New York, and David Littler' OF
Illinois.
THE President is in a dilemma. 81.
Louis wants him in September ana Chl-
cage wants him in November ne can
not make two trips West, and can not Ia
vor one city without offending the other;
ergo, he may not visit either.
The fisheries question is Thought al
Washington to be rapidly approaching a
elimination, owing to the menacing attl-
tude assumed by the Canadian authorl-
ties, encouraged by the British Govern
ment
TIE leading English Masonic lodges are
preparing elaborate fetes for the Amer,
can Knights Templar who go to the grand
Templars' union to be held in York in
July.
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER is reported
to be playing to rather light business in
| London, but is drawing 500 q week never
theless; and the critics agree that she is
showing marked improvement in her act
| ing.
! BENJAMIN MANSION, miner working III
the Lake Angelina nine, near Negaunee,
Mich, had his head cut off while ascend
leg the shaft on an ore ship, on the 9Th
His fellow miners were so shocked by
seeing his head fall to the bottom of the
! shaft that they all left the mine.
DIR. mud. of st, Louis, who went to
| Fort Gibson, l. T., to attend Mr. Blaine,
reports that the patient is suffering from
| brOncho- pneumonia, and fears are eX-
| pressed that his condition is worse than
has been given out.
IT is reported from st. Petersburg thai
quantity of dynamite has been alb
stracted from the artillery depot at Liban
and many persons have been arrested OF
suspicion of being implicated in the affair
THE German Supreme Court of Justice
has decided that the acquisition OF citizen
ship in the United States with an un
broken residence there of five years
causes loss of citizenship in Germany, anC
such persons returning to Germany viii
| be liable TO expulsion from the country.
A HORSESHOE turning contest took place
at Battery "Dn hall, Chicago, on the nigh
| Ol the JUll, between w lllldu ArmlJdSS
and Joseph LAWYER, both OF Chicago, 10
$3.50 a side. Lawler was the winner, com
pleting one hundred shoes in one hour dnC
six minutes, to eighty-nine for ArmitagC
in the same time.
THE Cherokee Female Seminary at
Tahlequah, l. T., was destroyed by fire OF
| the 10th
CAPTAIN BILLY FIELD, of the Unitet
States Indian police, was shot and killeC
at Eufaula, l. T., on the 10th.
POPULAR agitation against coercion /
Systematically organized Throughout
Great Britain and Ireland. English speak
ers are to visit Ireland and Irish speaker
will stump England.
A TELEGRAM from ST. Johns, n. F., Of
the 10th, announced that the missing
steamer Eagle arrived there at noon OIL
that day. All well She has 1000 seals
JUDGE WILLIAM STRONG died at Port
land, Ore, on the 10th, of Inflammation o
the liver, aged seventy. He went {
Oregon, then a Territory, in 1850 with tn
appolntm@ gas Federal judge from Pres
dent Fillmore, He was cousin of Judg
Strong of the United States suprem
bench and a descendent of the note
Strong family.